Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . e left that city in the course often years and took uji a permanent residencein New Haven. In 1,S47 he was called to theKent [)rofessorshi[) of law in Yale Law schooland soon afterward reino\ed from connection with his law school work hecontinued jiiactice and scrxed one year asjudge of the County Court. He also jirepai^edand puhlishcd a rexiscil edition of Swiftsdigest, and assisted in the revision of the [lies; that he possessed an e.\tensi\e
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . e left that city in the course often years and took uji a permanent residencein New Haven. In 1,S47 he was called to theKent [)rofessorshi[) of law in Yale Law schooland soon afterward reino\ed from connection with his law school work hecontinued jiiactice and scrxed one year asjudge of the County Court. He also jirepai^edand puhlishcd a rexiscil edition of Swiftsdigest, and assisted in the revision of the [lies; that he possessed an e.\tensi\e and accu-rate knowledge of adjudgetl cases, wonderfulreadiness in their application, gi-eat (|uicknessof legal perce[)tion, fertility of resource, and alia[)py audacity in assisting and maintainingnew lines of legal thought \\liich made aformidahle antagonist. To his practicalsagacity while in the legislature was largelydue that fundamental change in the law ofevidence that [jermitted parties in inteiest totestify—a law alterwaid adoi)ted in otherStates and in which Connecticut was the pio-neer and Judge Dutton the HENRY DUlTON. .statutes in l«4y, l,So4 and 18()(;. 1854 hewas elected governor of the State hy the legis-lature, the people lia\ ing failed to -alfect achoice at the preceding spiing election. In May, ].S()1, Judge Dutton was elected tosucceed William Wolcott k^llsworth on thebench of the Supreme Court, and he ser\edwith that body until February 12, (J(J, thenha\ing nearly reached his .seventieth year oflife. Leaving the bench be i-esumed practice,but chiefly devoted himself to lecture and mi-struction work in the law school. One of his biographers says Judge Duttunsmind was one vast stoi-ehouse of legal princi- 1I[-.\(;K1;K<)1;1), an hon-(ii-ed mendiei- of the (Jd Hartfordbar, wbo.^e tlistinguished prouunencc wasachicNcd wholly within the practice of hispio-fession and ^ not partially attiabutaiile topolitical picferment, was boi
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